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Robust methods in biostatistics /

Regulatory bodies and medical journals regularly raise their standards in terms of the quality of statistical analyses presented, wanting to ensure statistical methods are not misused leading to wrong conclusions. Following this trend there is a growing need for robust statistics in medical research...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Heritier, Stephane
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chichester, U.K. ; Hoboken : J. Wiley, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Regulatory bodies and medical journals regularly raise their standards in terms of the quality of statistical analyses presented, wanting to ensure statistical methods are not misused leading to wrong conclusions. Following this trend there is a growing need for robust statistics in medical research. Robust statistics is an extension of classical statistics that specifically takes into account that the underlying models used to describe data are only approximate. Its basic philosophy is to produce statistical procedures which are stable withy respect to changes in the data or model departures.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-264) and index.
ISBN:9780470740545
047074054X
9780470740538
0470740531
9786612123221
6612123222